The Goldberg Variations' alternation of connection and freedom, fantasy and strict form, was able to lead in a hitherto unknown way to a higher unity,...continue...
Recording information: Wien, Casino Baumgarten (05/13/2014-05/14/2014)....continue...

Ludwig Thuille was a comprehensively and multifariously educated musician: a composer, pianist, choir director, singer, music teacher (composition and piano) and music theorist. For until...continue...

Works: Carl Czerny: Quartet for Strings in D major; Quartet for Strings in E minor; Quartet for Strings in A minor; Quartet for Strings in D minor Conductors:Ensemble:
Sheridan Ensemble

Expedition Audio RecommendedThis new recording by the exceptional Sheridan Ensemble of four of these quartets, including two appearing as world-premiere recordings, is a landmark release....continue...

It is a plea for the direct experience of a music that had become fed up with the constraints of traditional forms. Debussy's music especially...continue...
Recording information: Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal, Köln (12/02/2013-12/13/2013)....continue...

In his musical aesthetics, Jean Françaix was close to the 'Groupe des six' from the outset, and in the connection between cheerfulness and elegance so...continue...
Recording information: Philharmonie, Ludwigshafen (05/05/2014-05/09/2014)....continue...

With the talent of young pianist Cassandra Wyss, this Wilhelm Stenhammar and Jean Sibelius compilation emerges as a gateway into the world of Nordic musical...continue...
Recording information: Andreaskirche am Wannsee, Berlin (08/04/2014-08/06/2014)....continue...

Pianist Christine Schornsheim, using a C.F. Schmahl-built 'Tangentenflu¨gel', recorded this choice selection of C.P.E. Bach's Rondos and Fantasias for Capriccio. Ms. Schornsheim has been a...continue...

In recent years, the focus of the cultural sponsoring of Bank Austria has continuously shifted towards the support of young and talented artists - both...continue...
Recording information: 4Tune Studio, Vienna, Austria (06/20/2014-06/23/2014)....continue...

For Giuseppe Verdi 'the song had about the same significance that the sketch has for the painter'. It gave him the opportunity 'to sketch emotions...continue...
Recording information: Baumgartner Casino, Vienna (05/2013)....continue...

A powerful woman - powerful material "Once upon a time there was a young woman who was more courageous than all the men in her...continue...
Run Time: 119 min.Region: 0Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, ColorSound Format(s): PCM Stereo 2.0, LPCM 5.1Subtitles: English, German, Italian
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There are three great Portuguese Modernist master composers, one being Fernando Lopes-Graça (1906-94). Lopes-Graça integrated Portuguese folklore in his oeuvre, combining it with atonal,...continue...
Recording information: Siemensvilla, Berlin (06/11/2012-06/15/2012)....continue...

The present album is a complement to the box of four CD transcriptions and paraphrases boxed set (CAPRICCIO 7015). This release features Bach arrangements not...continue...
Recording information: Berlin, Studio Gärtnerstraáe (05/17/2011-05/20/2011)....continue...

The Roman composer, administrator, director and teacher Goffredo Petrassi represents a salient figure in the development of 20thcentury Italian music history. His music, broadly considered...continue...

After the first album with French cello music and the very successful recording of the Haydn Cello Concertos, Harriet Krijgh continues with the pearls of...continue...
Recording information: Liszt-Konzertsaal, Raiding, Austria (04/2013)....continue...

The old Chinese drama of courtroom and customs was usable only as raw material. In its original version it is a fairly dull, wooden affair,...continue...
Recording information: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin-Dahlem (02/12/1990-02/16/1990)....continue...

This world premiere recording of Schmidt's Notre Dame is dominated not by Paris or Quasimodo, but by Esmeralda, played by Gwyneth Jones. She is the...continue...
Recording information: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin (08/1988)....continue...

Austrian cellist Martin Rummel is currently one of the busiest musicians of his generation. His career as a soloist and chamber musician is documented on...continue...
Recording information: Wuppertal, Immanuelskirche (11/14/2012-11/17/2012)....continue...

Anne Schwanewilms ranks among the greatest Strauss and Wagner interpreters today, but for her new album she deliberately chose songs by Schumann and Wolf. In...continue...
Recording information: Vienna, Casino Baumgarten (01/29/2013-02/01/2013)....continue...

Having sung more than 40 roles, Ramon Vargas is recognized as one of the leading lyrical tenors of the present. His interpretations of Mozart, Bellini...continue...
Recording information: Studio 22, Hungarian Radio, Budapest (2012)....continue...

MusicWeb International, 11th July 2013Three quartets each being the composer's third is a neat idea...I found the disc an extremely interesting and beautiful one and...continue...
Recording information: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin/Dahlem (12/03/2012-12/06/2012)....continue...